Did self mention that she thinks Dauntless is such a cool name for a horse? She has written a fable in which the name of the horse is Baucent. If only she had thought of a cool name for her horse, something like Unfazed. Or Hero. Or maybe even just Horse.
Anyhoo, Dauntless has other qualities, which self discovers on p. 16, when Quentin & Company run into Jollyby (She can’t stop thinking of the Philippine hamburger chain, JOLLIBEE), Master of the Hunt:
In one huge, leather-gloved fist Jollyby held up a large, madly kicking hare by its ears.
“Son of a bitch,” Dauntless said. “He caught it.”
Dauntless was a talking horse. She just didn’t talk much.
“He sure did,” Quentin said.
— The Magician King, p. 16
Self is cracking up!
About that hare: “How do you sneak up on an animal that can see the future? Maybe it saw other people’s but not its own. The hare’s eyes rolled wildly in their sockets.”
Kanlaon 